Your videos have such a homely feel. Like you're telling me a bedtime story or an old folk tale. I love it.

@LGR

10 жыл бұрын

:) why thank you.

@Scarfulhu

10 жыл бұрын

***** You're right, but uh... I'm not a she.

@saulgoodman9278

10 жыл бұрын

Scarfulhu Oops sorry honest mistake I think I had a bit of a drunk moment when typing that comment in I will edit now.

@mcFreaki

9 жыл бұрын

for reals though, clint's voice is one of those things that makes me feel warm and comfy.

@slowmowgoldsachs1585

6 жыл бұрын

this!

it'll be a sad day when no more physical games are released.

@k4yser

10 жыл бұрын

Nothing to collect anymore:( guess we have to make our own boxes then

@mqL49J

10 жыл бұрын

it just plays so much warmer with all the scratches

@videogameobsession

10 жыл бұрын

Anyone older than the age of 8 should know how to properly handle their media without scratching it. Out of the 4,000+ discs I own I don't think a single one has even so much as a finger print on it.

@mqL49J

10 жыл бұрын

videogameobsession did you first burn off your fingertips like kevin spacey in seven? that sounds just as nuts to me, i remember throwin all my tupperware out just so i didn't have to stack it and pack it when i was moving to a new apartment, can't imagine dealing with thousands little cardboard boxes of nerd vinyl, just the thought of dusting it gives me nightmares

@videogameobsession

10 жыл бұрын

No, but that's a good tip! I just pick up discs and hold them like they suggest. Press on the middle to release the disc and hold it on the edges. I have been wearing glasses since the age of 4 so I know how to keep things from getting scratched. "In the case or on your face"... or "in the case or in the tray" when it comes to this. ;)

It's really easy to answer the question of "why Europe gets this stuff?" To put it simply, PC gaming is big in Europe and it always was even before Steam so releasing boxed copies is some kind of a habit that sticked with European publishers guess because it is still worth it. In the US consoles rule the market, in Europe PC gets that attention in most countries.

@AdamWhitmore

9 жыл бұрын

Could also argue that some parts of Europe dont have the bandwidth to download big titles. I know I saw a lot of people on reddit posting about how many days it was going to take to download GTAV

@zenoooooo

9 жыл бұрын

***** I live in Rural America and it still took me a fucking week to download.

@alexmilchev5395

7 жыл бұрын

ZaxxerDog *laughs in Balkans' supreme internet connection*

@ZaxxerDog

7 жыл бұрын

That's not an issue actually: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Internet_connection_speeds Weirdly enough a lot of poorer European countries had better overall internet connections than the rest of the world for a long time... and well, compared to South Korea eveyone sucks. :D

@DimT670

4 жыл бұрын

@@ZaxxerDog sure it's available but how many people have access to it?

Heh, well this is surprising. I didn't realize that some of those boxes weren't available in the USA. In Polish stores I have seen physical copies of Blood Dragon, Amnesia (with more mysterious box art that doesn't spoil monster), Worms Reloaded, Alan Wake's Nightmare, dlc packs for every Call of Duty, Simulations games, Minecraft and more. If had to guess reason of physical copies of digital games in Europe: - PC gaming was and is very popular in Europe even before the existence of Steam (personally I prefer GoG). - It's always nice to install a game without waiting hours for it to download - not everyone has fast Internet connection. - When talking about Poland itself there was problem with piracy. Back in a day there were big delay between premiers of games, new consoles in US and here. For example NES never came here, and we only had a clone called Pegasus and people would literally sell pirated copies of PC/cartridge games on markets. Since then it became a thing that publishers (like Cd Project) would publish games with goodies like maps, instruction manuals, guidebooks etc. - encouraging people to buy official products. Probably the same mentality publishers try to convey with digital games. Oh and by the way our first official consoles were PS1 and PS2 and Nintendo never became a thing here in Poland. Sorry for my overlong rumblings :P

@Krushak8888

Жыл бұрын

I'm six years late, but I stopped buying physical releases because when I think I bought the orange box tonget l4d, tf and etc or it was l4d2.... it it was just a cd to install steam and then put in the cd key and it becomes bound to your account

I can only speak for Germany, but over here, credit cards are not as common as in the US and paying online is/was 'a big deal' sort of. People are also more afraid to give away their credit card data to 'some obscure foreign internet company'. Also easier for minors to just go into a shop and buy a physical copy. Probably also slow internet conecctions in some areas... would take me an entire day to DL 4gigs of a DVD at home.

@MrVenom1974

10 жыл бұрын

I think you got a point. Steam is also a huge thing here in Germany. But most of the gamers here don't trust unknown companies so they prefer to buy it in a physical form. And there is also the issue of bandwidth. Download 30-60 Gbs for one game only is nearly impossbile for a lot of people. And as a collector I also buy the physical disc. So I bought Duck Tales Remastered and will buy (even I have lets played it) Broken Sword 5 in a physical form. Maybe we'll get the Castle of Illusation Remake as a disc version. This would be nice.

@mirta000

10 жыл бұрын

for a Lithuanian it's horribly difficult to get a debit card that would work in the first place. First, to get a debit card you have to be 18. Secondly, a lot of internet stores will deny you because they don't send to your country. So I can buy digital goods from Steam and Amazon.com (fake adress and digital only), but if you try to grab items from European amazons they just refuse to send. Then places like Humble Bundle send you your money back and take away your games because your card confused them (even though it's a mastercard - a known brand).

@LGR

10 жыл бұрын

Makes a lot of sense!

@sejekage01

10 жыл бұрын

Easy for minors to buy games in Germany??! You must be kidding me. In Denmark a 6 year old could by GTA, in Germany they'll ask for your passport if you don't look 16 enough (Buying a 16+ game being 16...)

@Theshadowsnose

10 жыл бұрын

sejekage01 At least Media Markt always asks for a passport if you buy any 18+ stuff. I was quite perplex the last time I bought a DVD there... I'm 40. Still easier than asking your dad for HIS credit card number to buy the game online.

Your voice is one of the most soothing, plesant things i've ever heard. You should narrate books.

@LGR

10 жыл бұрын

Why thank you.

@Big_Tex

10 жыл бұрын

Say that's not a bad idea. I use the heck out of audible-dot-com, I've heard plenty of voice actors less interesting than Clint.

I prefer physical copies of games. I have slow internet & actual copies of games are great.

@furrynazi2307

7 жыл бұрын

Z M In the words of The Nerd (I think) "I prefer something I can get my hands on."

@travishunt8832

4 жыл бұрын

Thats true me too

Duke Nukem 1 Duke Nukem 2 Duke Nukem 3d Duke Nukem 4ever

@dopemixtapez

8 жыл бұрын

+Mason Dorobek omg I never noticed. Although 4ever sucked though lol

@ElectronicControl3R

8 жыл бұрын

+Mason Dorobek do not forget Manhattan son.

@sameash3153

3 жыл бұрын

I literally never noticed this

We get all these physical copies in Australia as well, I work at EB Games so I also get first picks on all this stuff ;)

@sholva6809

6 жыл бұрын

The only downside is a few physical copies nowadays in Australia just have a steam installer on the disc which is bullshit.

@Gmoney6422

3 жыл бұрын

Damn I wish we still had EB Games... (In the US)

@meikahidenori

3 жыл бұрын

That's cool, but more likely to find more variety in JB HIFI ( my local EB never has the games I'm looking for😭)

@user-yg4kj2mf1p

3 жыл бұрын

​@@sholva6809 It's not bullshit. In parts of the world where speeds are slow (Africa, Middle East), getting a DVD saves tons of download time, as only the updates need to be downloaded. I bought an imported physical release of Need for Speed: Heat, which came on 4 DVDs stacked on top of each other. Obviously, I only used the code to download the newest version of the game from Origin and kept the box as a novelty.

Retro City Rampage got a physical release for MS-DOS on an actual 3.5" floppy disc. It also got an extremely limited release (I think 2000 copies) on PlayStation 4 and PS Vita.

@LGR

8 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/e6Bql6iCe7rNdc4.html

@memebot6490

5 жыл бұрын

Aliens Studios Productions Did that even work on Dos? Seemed pretty resource intensive even if it's small in comparison to modern games

Found a physical copy of I Am Bread at Target yesterday and bought it. Weird. Also got Goat Simulator at the same Target last year.

@LGR

8 жыл бұрын

Oh wow, didn't know I Am Bread had a physical release, will have to track it down.

How is it that I've only recently discovered your fantastic channel? Your content is absolutely phenomenal, you are definitely a top tier "KZreadr".

@LGR

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I'm glad to have been found!

Retail distribution is easier/cheaper in the UK at least - we've only got one small island to supply. It may also be because of the slower spread of fast internet connections in the UK - some places in th eouter reaches are still offline.

@WatanabeNoTsuna.

3 жыл бұрын

About some regions of the country being offline - that's try in the US as well. Hell, there are patches of USA without stable internet connection bigger than the entire UK! 😂

I have a physical copy of the Half Life 1 collection. It's quite funny really, it's a physical copy of a digital copy of a physical game. Madness.

@gabrielgarcia9822

5 жыл бұрын

*THE ORANGE BOX* RRRREEEEEE

I primarily buy the boxed copies because they're cheaper than the Steam versions.

@MattVariety

10 жыл бұрын

Tends to be the opposite for me.

@fusiongamesstudios

10 жыл бұрын

Mashu You should look in bargin bins, I got 6 copies of frozen synapse with red dlc for $5

@Shmaples

10 жыл бұрын

In the U.S. (the area I live in at least), I have yet to find a hard copy cheaper than a Steam copy. I work at Best Buy and am constantly looking for better deals but Steam always beats the store version, even after my employee discount. I have looked in many other stores as well but Steam is always the best bargain.

@marekvrbka

10 жыл бұрын

PS4 version of Watch dogs (Special edition) costs 10$ less than digital

@Tartar

10 жыл бұрын

Iris Zizka Yup, let the spawn of capitalism engulf you ^_^

I hate when they pull this crap. Its fine for the people who buy the game with fast uncapped internet but what about people with either slow internet or internet with a cap? If it's not going to actually use the discs why don't they just sell the case with the code?

@Tazza81

8 жыл бұрын

They do. At least here in Australia

I just love the idea of Goat Simulator sitting on a shelf next to the 20 other more serious simulators out there.

Actually, there is a PS3 physical copy of minecraft, and a physical copy of the vita version coming up. Also, Killing Floor got a physical release, something that surprised me when I picked it up.

It's really weird to hear that america doesn't get many physical releases.

There are many reasons why you're my favourite youtuber and videos like these is one of them. I love how you think outside the box and deliver such unique content; you really stand out from the rest. I've said this many times before but I'll say it again - keep up the good work, Clint. What you do is awesome.

@LGR

10 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much :)

See, the reason your channel is awesome is your sense of humor and facial expressions. They're great! Actually... I just noticed that you look like me with an added beard. XD

@MegaSantaclaude

10 жыл бұрын

Don't forget his Duke Nukem voice. :P

@ai-bino

10 жыл бұрын

Right, right. *In Duke Nukem voice* Marvel at the amazing voice of Duke Nukem Be dazzled as he takes on goat simulator Wait what?

@MegaSantaclaude

10 жыл бұрын

Gamecool10 Still wouldn't be surprised if Duke took on goats. :P

I think the reason Europe gets a lot more physical releases is because our internet can be absolutely rubbish in some parts. Downloading a whole game can take days so people just go buy it from a shop because it's easier. At least that was the case with me when I was living in the British countryside when I was younger.

I SEE JAZZ JACKRABBIT 2 IN THE BACKGROUND. REVIEW CONFIRMED.

@djazz0

10 жыл бұрын

+1! I have the original JJ2 box with comic/manual :3

@TheStolken

10 жыл бұрын

Yeah but you're not reviewing it.

I ended up buying DuckTales Remastered 3 times. once from PSN, then they released a physical boxed version for the PS3 which contained a cardboard disc with a code.. then they announced a Blu-Ray disc version for the PS3 so I bought that as well...

@LGR

10 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I'm glad I waited and just got the disc version for PS3! Very cool to own.

@videogameobsession

10 жыл бұрын

Well, at least the first cardboard disc release came with a collectible Disney DuckTales pin. So not a total waste hehe.

@bobcow

10 жыл бұрын

I have the Wii U version!

@mbii7667

Жыл бұрын

You're part of the problem

@videogameobsession

Жыл бұрын

​@@mbii7667 Who's part of the which problem?

A few games I didn't expect to see in stores but found them anyway: Monkey Island 1 & 2 Special Edition for the PS3 (which I bought without even blinking) Walking Dead Season 1 for PS Vita Angry Birds for PS3 (yes, you read that correctly)

The Binding of Isaac also has a Most Unholy Edition, which I'm fairly certain was only in Germany - it comes with the same kind of stuff as in the Super Meat Boy boxed version

Love the Tapwave Zodiac in the corner. Perfect match with Jazz Jackrabbitz.

When you pulled that first manual out and flipped through it, it brought back so many memories! Every single time I got a new Sims game, I'd open the manual first and just enjoy the blissful scent! So beautiful! Don't you agree?

Part of me still hopes that The Sims 4 GPs, SPs, and EPs will come out as physical copies. I just don't trust digital copies. Its nice to look at a shelf full of Sims games rather than a screen full of box art.

@simmernick9

9 жыл бұрын

You can buy some combo packs physically, I got spa day and perfect patio bundle at walmart

Well, phsical discs are still the deal in Germany and it looks like it keeps going that way. Most of the gamers I talked from Centra and East Europe are aware of they actually do not OWN the games on Steam. They consider Steam as a rental system which would be shut down one day. Believe me, it sounds crazy but they really consider that posibility. Given the fact that the "beloved" users of OnLive were burnt so bad, I cannot blame them. >;-) As a person who travels between different far and close locations time to time, I prefer to reach my games any time and anywhere I want. Therefore, I prefer digital copies over physical ones. BTW, Doom 3 BFG Edition's DVD includes Doom 3 remastered alongside with The Ultimate Doom, Doom II and Doom II: No Rest for the Living. Requires Steam though...

@REA987

8 жыл бұрын

danielroxheaps Yeah, that is why OnLive's consumers burnt and physical game users have a point to be doubtful for Steam.

@TremiRodomi

8 жыл бұрын

+REA987 Valve once said that if they go under, they'll make a way to play all your Steam games without Steam.

I've seen a bunch of physical UK PC releases get released here in Canada with the Pegi rating still on them.

In Germany exists a boxed version of Beat Hazard Ultra, published by Headup Games (they published alot of indie/download games). Fun fact: on the Disc from Beat Hazard Ultra, you can find a Track made by me :D

I'm so buying a copy, because why not? I live in the UK, But hooray, The UK gets something the US doesn't, what a change!

@L0rdLogan

10 жыл бұрын

It'd be very hard for the US to do that, They are also very well implemented. They stop a lot of crime, so I don't mind.

@Templars1005

10 жыл бұрын

Andrew Fishburn I'd rather stop crimes from "needing" to happen and not have to have cameras on every street corner.

@g4anode

10 жыл бұрын

Voxel8or The UK has CCTV the US has the NSA, same shit different name. Except the CCTV cameras stop crime just by being there, can't say the same for the NSA.

@cardiacade

10 жыл бұрын

***** You must be living in an alternate version of Britain then because that's exactly what I see on the streets every week.

@citizenhal

10 жыл бұрын

cardiacade Yeah, but you'd see more of it. Crime can never be completely stopped.

Physical copies ftw!

Wow, this was really cool stuff, man! I was surprised by quite a few of these entries. Thanks for sharing your thoughts :)

Don't know why I haven't found your channel until today, great vid, subbed

Maybe Europeans just have more Shelves

@RazgulTheKind

7 жыл бұрын

I knew it! Shelves are the real MVP.

@thebiglich

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ikea!

For the record, the PS3 edition of Minecraft is getting a physical release very soon, with different box art than the 360 edition.

@M4R14NO94

10 жыл бұрын

It did come out a while ago, I saw a copy at a store.

@-DeScruff

10 жыл бұрын

Yeah I just saw a copy and I was just like "Oh wow when did this come out?"

Holy crap, I've seen that Blood Dragon box in a mall two weeks ago. Didn't know it had a poster, now I just have to get it. Also, this made me look up World of Goo on an online ebay-like used goods shop which lead me to boxed copies of The Void, Planescape Torment, SWAT 4, The Thing and Tron 2.0 for about 1.25 bucks each, and a copy of The Dark Project for about $2.5 (all boxed, sadly Thief isn't the big boxed edition, but some weird "small-big" box with a jewel case inside, and it's german). I owe you a lot for these, man.

Square and NIS America sometimes still release Boxed copies of game exclusively on their online store for Pre-Orders only. I know I've bought a few that never saw the light of day outside of that. One of my most loved physical copy happens to be the US Soundtrack to Final Fantasy VIII. Got it signed by Nobuo Uematsu at a Distant Worlds concert where no one had ever seen it before. Great moment there.

The reason Europe get so many physical releases and the US doesn't is because of everything else the US gets. In Europe, and pretty much everywhere else, we have to go through all sorts of travel problems and such just to get a Twinkie. I know you can probably order them online, but it's not the same as going to the store and getting them yourself.

@MissiGNO000

9 жыл бұрын

Plus you'll have to pay twice as much for it

@rafeverao4105

9 жыл бұрын

I love twinkies...

A lot of those games didn't get a US physical release since they were developed in the UK/EU. Worms Reloaded by Team17 in UK, Sniper Elite by Rebellion in UK, American Nightmare by Nordic Games (self explanatory).

@LGR

10 жыл бұрын

Earlier versions of Worms, Sniper Elite 1, and Alan Wake were all sold in America in physical form though is the thing :) It's these more recent ones that are odd over here!

@Shmaples

10 жыл бұрын

lee mottreshead It's K, I'm gonna go eat a hamburger, break the chair I'm eating in because I'm so fat and then blame it on all the "Feraners" invading our "Murica". Ahh stereotypes.

@northwindkey

9 жыл бұрын

Shmaples Actually, Mexico has become fatter than america. Yay, we in murica lost 0.0000001 pounds! Thats real progress. Yes, I am american

I really can't believe you uploaded this! What a huge coincidence. Yesterday my friend and I missed a bus from town and had 2 hours to kill until the next bus came so we went to the GAME (British video game shop with an original name www.game.co.uk ) and we were surprised how good the PC section had been updated. The prices were great and I picked up Tropico 5 for 30 pounds and then we suddenly realised that goat simulator was there. I picked it up to look at the box and then we realised that Monaco was there as well (in a very nicely designed box too) and then I saw LIMBO and Hotline Miami. It was very strange for me seeing these games but even though I owned them on Steam I really wanted to get them because the boxes were SO NICE (with the exception of Goat Simulator which was pretty standard). They were embossed and had sleeves and opened up like a book and stuff. Some even had holograms on the box such as Monaco. We were the only ones in the shop and we started chatting to a guy that worked there. He was talking about these boxed digital games and then we played a game of FIFA on the PS4 on display. In the end I bought goat simulator because I didn't actually own it at all anyway. But it was £9.99 which is quite a bit more than the standard price of the digital version. But it is expected for the packaging and stuff I guess but Tropico was actually cheaper than the digital version and it was on sale. I also bought LIMBO and Monaco for their lovely boxes. And they actually were boxes. Like in the old days. It's amazing you released this video today when this all happened to me yesterday. What can I say, I'm a sucker for boxes. XD If you are wondering the exact shop it was GAME, Ards Shopping Centre, Newtownards, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom :D it's my local shop and I love it to bits. :D

i wish you had shown some more old boxes from 80/90s where all the boxes had awesome artwork that had nothing to do with the real game :P But i sure do miss buying games from the shelves.

makes a vídeo about one of these phisical releases that Just come with a key code inside

i got minecraft on disc mostly because it was a time when I couldn't get internet.

Excellent video, Clint! Weird how some games are only physical releases overseas. The only physical (known as digital only) release I have is Necrovision: Lost Company. I'm huge fan on the original game, and have a physical copy of it. I had to get the prequel in physical condition. I got a physical copy of Lost Company from Thailand. Though the box and manual isn't in english the game is, and it's an actual install DVD, no Steam needed. :)

Ah yes, this was one of my fears as adopting the PC Gaming way of life. Physical copies of games. Being a collector of games, I feel much more satisfied getting a boxed copy of a game rather than a digital one, putting that case on my shelf and taking a few steps back to see my entire collection before my eyes, it's wonderful. That's why no matter what, if there's a physical copy of a game, I get it always over the digital version. Obviously some games are digital only, and that's kind of unavoidable. My only exception is Steam Sales. Sometimes, those deals are just too good to pass up, but, I still infinitely prefer physical. Hell, for recent games, I got Watch Dogs and Titanfall on PC physically cause why the hell not?

"Forget life play Snood"

Living in Europe, I had no idea all those games DIDN'T exist in the US. I see these in stores all the time.

Every time you turn the case over and I see that steam logo I die inside

I suppose the lack of DVD rom drives in modern PCs is a driver for less physical copies. Also, some games are massive like GTA5 which would probably need 10 DVDs or so. My two cents :D - finally, thanks Clint for some of the best content on YT.

Since I live in Europe, finding downloadable games in physical form is so common I just never really notice it and I always assume it's like that over there as well. Kinda shocked the US is weird in that regard.

I have a physical copy of Awesomenauts and Chivalry: Medieval Warfare, I never knew these even existed (I mean the physical releases, not the games D:) and I just found them while browsing an ebay-like website for games :S

@LGR

10 жыл бұрын

Whoa, Chivalry got a retail release huh? Will have to track that one down.

@ForeverDiox

10 жыл бұрын

Lazy Game Reviews www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Chivalry-Medieval-Warfare-PC-/380915963796?pt=UK_PC_Video_Games_Video_Games_JS&hash=item58b05c5794 Right here bud.

@ForeverDiox

10 жыл бұрын

Lazy Game Reviews Also, it only again seems to have been released in the uk. That's all I've seen so far.

@SobiesawChabaz

10 жыл бұрын

Spanked Diox I own a Polish copy, it's being distributed by, well, CD Projekt D:

@ForeverDiox

10 жыл бұрын

www.g2a.com/chivalry-medieval-warfare-steam-cdkey-global.html?___store=englishus This is the only different version I've been able to find. The Polish version only seems to come from steam, I don't know man. I can't find a hard copy everywhere. Maybe your just lucky and have the only hard copy in existence xD?

Love your videos as always. I guess I should know this but what is that in the background when your showing the boxed games? Keep it up love your videos and GREAT HUMOR!

You do some really cool and interesting videos, man. You have a good cadence also when you talk about things. Great vids.

You are delightfully nerdy, mate.

Some of the weirdest physical releases I've seen are for simulators, such as Train Simulator and Farm Simulator... Really weird to see that sort of stuff at a store...

@Dawthchling

10 жыл бұрын

You've clearly never visited a German game store :P

@KinTheFennix

10 жыл бұрын

Dutchling Aren't most of the simulators made in Germany?

@toposebi95

10 жыл бұрын

Whole section to NOTHING BUT simulators in a Gamestop shop in Dublin. It was amazing.

I Live in the UK - I have 'Might and magic X: Legacy' on physical release - this wasn't available in the US (at least on release, dunno about now) - you got the game on dvd, a FULL MANUAL!!!, soundtrack, Might and magic 6 uplay code, the first DLC and a cloth map, the map is great and really helpful. The good thing was that the physical release was the same price as the digital on release day plus if you bought from uplay directly they gave you a pre-release key so you can play when it went live and you just put in the code in the box to progress past act 1, so if the game was delayed then you could still download and play on release day - i wish more companies would do that, instant access to digital but post out a physical also

Hey LGR! Another odd thing about Tux Racer... I actually played Tux Racer on an Arcade Cabinet before I knew there were any other versions. It was strange indeed. My local Gattis had it I believe. you controlled the penguin with a WHEEL. A literal Car Wheel.

Another example is the physical version of Skullgirls. After the game became unexpectedly popular in Japan, it eventually gained a physical release in Japan because of their general adversity to downloadable media.

@k-leb4671

7 жыл бұрын

Japan is great - quality rice, vending machines everywhere, still an almost entirely cash society (which would be a problem to most western people but I think it's interesting), and just likes physical stuff in general, such as video game boxes.

@Kytseo

7 жыл бұрын

Caleb Jaaniste Then again, there is the fact that their workforce is merciless (to the point where their have their own term, Karoshi, that refers to death from overwork).

@mbii7667

Жыл бұрын

@@Kytseo I say it's worth it

Worms isn't surprising at all.. There were console and handheld versions and shit.. Big franchise..

@LGR

10 жыл бұрын

Considering we don't get them physically here in the US, it's surprising to me!

@AuddityHipHop

10 жыл бұрын

Lazy Game Reviews We get them in Canada 0.o..

Really glad to see the Scratches box only because Im Argentinian. Also great video as always, you're one of my favourite youtubers, always admired old pc hardware and software.

The reason Europe specifically the UK have more hard copy releases of their games goes back to the 80s. While here in the US we went for cartridge based systems like the NES, the European market found a niche with PCs like Sinclair ZX spectrum. They were tons cheaper thanks to a lack of import tax. Not to mention the games were generally cheaper. That filters into today's market because there is a higher population on PC gamers in the UK and Europe. These gamers tend to expect a physical release because of this history. It's like in Japan with music. Physical copies of music sell much more because of included content like posters, album art, etc.

@RaithSienar

8 жыл бұрын

+J.London Actually the US doesn't have many physical releases because FUCKING GAMESTOP doesn't carry physical copies of PC games, and since for some reason they are the dominant gaming retailer in the US this means no one bothers making physical releases here because FUCKING GAMESTOP won't carry them. Now the question is, WHY won't FUCKING GAMESTOP carry PC games? They claim it's because they weren't selling. This is of course, bullshit. What they actually wanted to do was take that shelf space to be able to put more used games up for consoles since it is impossible to resell used PC games. See, if Gamestop can't resell used games for 10x what they paid the chump who brought it in, they won't carry games for the system.

@JL0ndon

8 жыл бұрын

+RaithSienar while that's true- EB games (before it was GameStop) had PC games. It is mostly the modern iteration of PC games and the market for them here in the states. It goes back to my original comment- back in the beginning of the 8bit era US consumers preferred to have consoles as UK users were on a computer boom and so in today's world the big retailers don't think they'll make money with PC games. Hence GameStop doesn't sell them.

JJR2 video incoming!

Over in Euroland they don't have FUCKING GAMESTOP. Gamestop killed the PC retail scene by not carrying PC games anymore.

@MrAmi69

8 жыл бұрын

Gamestop in my country (in europe), still have physical PC games.

@olivertaylor7247

8 жыл бұрын

In England, CEX and Game still carry physical PC games.

@mjr.ashhole7436

8 жыл бұрын

+Milo O'Rourke me too but they mostly have very obscure games were I live

@mjr.ashhole7436

8 жыл бұрын

+Ollie Taylor cex doesn't count because all the games are second hand.

@mjr.ashhole7436

8 жыл бұрын

+otakuploader I don't get why people say GameStop is evil?

I always try to get physical copies of games if I can.Not only for the box/case but the manual.Lets face it few of us actually look at the digital manual on steam games. Complicated games like the x3 (for example) series its almost a must to have the hundred plus page manual.As its not too convenient to tab out of a game to look at the digital manual then end up writing down key binds so you can remember. Edit: A old friend that now works at Tripwire Interactive says companies actually make more off selling physical copies.Since places like Steam take money off the top along with their publisher.His company publishes their own games so a physical copy for them is almost 100% profit. For small Indy type devs they deserve every penny so physical copies help support the developers.

Hey LGR! You and your vids are awesome, I enjoy watching them. Plus, Wow, dats a lot of physical stuf that I knew was ever physical

Europeans don`t trust in online shopping and prefer buying a retail game

There's a couple of those jewel case w/ cardboard sleeve versions of Amnesia released through another value software company. Importing would be more fun if the PEGI logo didn't look like dogshit. Yeah I said it, ESRB for LIFE.

I already tweeted you about it, but I got Frozen Synapse, Collector's Edition in a box by sheer luck in a Gamestop store. Same store also carried a single copy of FC3:Blood Dragon, I might add.

3:28 I remember playing this game as a kid on Windows 7 or maybe even Linux I think , ahh such memories

Sniper Elite V2 is free on Steam !!!

Main reason for physical copies here in Europe are 1. You want to feel that you actually own it, for same price as a digital you get a physical that you can uninstall and reinstall again and again and again unlike having an digital account that might ban you and ending up with you loosing all the games you bought. 2. Older gamers do not play games that manage accounts over the web (origin, battle.net, steam). 3. Digital doesnt do games justice sometimes, getting more "loot" for same price is better. It feels better.

@ReindeerNavy

10 жыл бұрын

The EU and Germany in particular are really cracking down on valve to allow reselling of games and other things on steam.

@stuntkojima

10 жыл бұрын

***** What? I don't think so.

@FuriKitten

10 жыл бұрын

***** Errrm, Most of EU has bad internet Errrrm Nope, compare with Aus, NZ, and Most of US. Hell even most of the World, EU has Pretty amazing access, I am getting 12Mbit access on my PC through tethered android device (unlimited download), and upto 60-100 Mb if I could be bothered getting a physical connection, and I am not living within 20km of a city.

@FuriKitten

10 жыл бұрын

***** that is 12mbs on a 2012 HSPA+ enabled phone (theoretical max is 14.4 Mbs) for the same price I could get a physical >100Mbs connection with unlimited transfer (and TV and phone), which seems to be a lot better than a lot of the US/Aus/Africa seriously bandwidth caps, packet shaping, throttling to certain competitor site servers really US internet providers,

@FuriKitten

10 жыл бұрын

***** I am aware that in some places throughout the EU there are varying degrees of net provision, however the majority of the EU enjoys good ISP choice and availability of service providers. Turkey espescially has it's own list of Internet problems the least of which is bandwidth. This was a response in the misconceived fact that the bulk of the EU is somehow impoverished, whilst the majority do not enjoy terminal 2Gbs fibre connections, the nature of having many individual nations and EU diredctives to increase communication availability throughout the EU states has resulted in many areas enjoying good connectivity. As to this reducing the preferance to Digitial distributed media, this isn't really a factor, I still have a steam / GOG /Desura /Origin account and even if the individual file DLs at 4Mbs I can just leave it on overnight. However there are a lot more physical copies available from the UK especially, this is due to market preference, (just that the argument that internet is crap over the bulk of EU is considerably incorrect)

Last year, I managed to snatch a copy of Dink Smallwood, a fun "RPG" Zelda-like game released in 1997-1998 in very limited quantities. Once the copies were sold, it was released as freeware in 1999. I had been looking for it for years and I was super excited to finally own it!

Unreal Tournament soundtrack playing on the background? Friggin' love it!

i'm more jealous of japanese people and what japanese games never see a release anywhere else. you won't even hear about so many of them because of the language barrier. i wonder how many ni no kuni caliber games are there that are forever lost unless you learn japanese and go to japan in person because even if you figure out how to order something, the shipping fees and import taxes make it really expensive IF they deliver internationally at all.

physical game releases suck now because of steam. we won't be able to buy these games second hand anymore, the discs are totally useless and the manuals are pathetic.

I was surprised to come across a physical copy of Torchlight some time ago. It's nice to have the option to get yourself a box for a game you enjoy, even if it might be more convenient to get it digitally.

Oh man, Amnesia. I found the physical copy at Gamestop when it came out, by coincidence. :-D Bonus points for it not requiring you to register it to Steam when you put it in your PC! Also, I need the original Doom box. Now.

@koalabrownie

10 жыл бұрын

Cobradabest . you can buy amnesia from gog DRM free.

because Europe is cooler :)

@AntiqueMeme

8 жыл бұрын

Stfu nerd :)

@alexander1485

8 жыл бұрын

+Garry Cowan at least the US has 1 language....!

@garrycowan4394

8 жыл бұрын

Lol

@garrycowan4394

8 жыл бұрын

A language which you borrowed from us which in itself is an amalgam of many European languages French unfortunately being one :)

@jeremyandrews3292

7 жыл бұрын

Well, the UK is definitely cooler than Texas... especially in the summer. Although honestly, I don't like Germany, Sweden, or France at all. Switzerland, Norway, and Austria are all right... but really, aside from the UK and Australia, my favorite countries outside the US would probably be Japan and South Korea. I never understood what people see in continental Europe, or how they'd feel safe backpacking across it.

Yeah, In Europe finding a physical release of a Simulator game is common as balls. Many of the games you showed I haven´t personally stumbled upon (maybe because I wasn´t particularly looking for them), but I did manage to find the Binding of Isaac most unholy edition in stores which was definitely a surprise to me.

Hey man I love your channel. You always have cool and unique videos. Anyways, if you have a PS3 there are a lot of digital games that have physical copies. The first one is the Journey Collector's Edition where it comes with Flow, Flower, and Journey and also some codes for extra content. Second, the remastered HD version of Okami had a physical copy only in Japan, but you can still play it in an American PS3 since the games are region free. Lastly, the Best of PlayStation Network Vol. 1, has 4 popular games on the PSN in a retail disc. The games are: Vikings Attack, Sound Shapes, Tokyo Jungle, and Fat Princess.

At the Walmart in San Bernardino there was a copy of Space Engineers. Didn't have the money to buy it though :/

As a games retail clerk from Czech Republic (at least until recetly - calling higher management useless won't exactly get you promotion, who would have thought) I'd say there are several reasons for these PC physical releases here: - PC is still the main gaming platform here (and that's probably true everywhere east from Germany, them included I guess) - There is little trust towards online payment methods here - many people just won't do online payments, kids usually can't. So just buying a boxed game with steam code (and yes there is almost always a disc) is pretty much the most straightforward, if not the only way to sell a game to basically all non-enthusiasts and kids. Hell, "we" even have boxes with codes fro DLC packs for AC, HoMaM games and such. Terraria actually suprised me though, never had that in store, lots of kids were asking for it.

@LGR

10 жыл бұрын

Sounds very reasonable, to me. Thanks for the insight!

Back in 2002 America's Army was mainly distributed through download, but you could get physical copies from Army recruiting offices. I couldn't download it with my slow internet at the time, so I actually picked one up at a recruiting office.

I love manuals, I remember I would read the world of warcraft manual whenever I would take a dump, the pictures inside were so cool

Great Video!! I love physical things over digital just feels like you really own it that way.. I am going to have to hunt some of those things one down...

Good old worms, made in the little town I grew up and live in, makes me proud of living here since Team 17 are only a short walk away from me!

In the Netherlands we have this store called Nedgame, and it sells a lot of these kind of physical copies of games that you wouldn't think they got one. I always love coming there just to see what they have. I'm the kind of person that loves to have my games in physical form, like many people I assume.

Normally I don´t collect retail versions of PC games but you have to check out the physical releases of Limbo, with need oldschool 3D glasses and Gone Home in a sweet SNES-Box style packaging. Keep on making awesome videos.

Awesome video like always. Had you did review on an old game called Castle of the Winds?

The first game I saw that did this was The Binding of Isaac's unholy edition. It seemed cool but strange at the same time. Interesting video for the intrigued!

Physical, let's get PHYSICAL! Physical, let's get...let's get PHYSICAL! Sorry, I just had to. :D

I recall Tux Racer initially being a piece of shareware, so you could install the free version (even ones hosted by the distributions), but in order to unlock all of the levels, you had to buy the box version.

I've been playing APB Reloaded off and on for about 2 years now, and I never knew that there was actually a physical release of the Reloaded version. I gotta get my hands on one! Thanks LGR!

Since you had Super Meat Boy there i might as well mention that Binding Of Isaac also got a pretty cool boxed version, it has some pretty awesome looking art on the front of the box and some cool goodies along with a non-drm copy of the game and the expansion patched to a newer version compared to the steam version (mostly bug fixes and what not). It's pretty easy to find around these parts, I've seen it in most Gamestops around here in Finland.

If we could find physical copies of all of Bucketheads Pike series, we would be complete.

We still get these physical releases here in Australia too, it's not just Europe. I have a handful of the games you featured, and they're mostly the same editions/box art as here too.

I'm not really into collecting pc games in physical form, but one of the most cherished games in my collection is a complete copy of the first Command and Conquer. Everything is in it. Warranty card and stuff like that. It takes me back to a simpler time.